Good work! Glad to see some progress being made in visualising and debugging dependency problems - it certainly saps a lot of developer time where I work.
Looking forward to more screenshots. Cheers, Mark On 24/09/2007, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working with Oleg Gusakov to make the necessary alterations > for graph-first based dependency resolution and here are some > pictures we've come up with so far. > > This is of the completely unadulterated tree with no scope > transitioning, conflict resolution, or transformation: > > http://people.apache.org/~jvanzyl/g1.png (root at the centre with an > organic layout) > > Another view: > > http://people.apache.org/~jvanzyl/g2.png (node with most deps at > centre, using a circular layout) > > What you see in green are nodes with the same groupId, and artifactId > so it gives you some idea of how conflict resolution may need to > occur. In this tree we have all the depth information, source > information and anything else to make an informed decision because we > still have all the information at this point. > > Next we have the transformation of the tree into a graph and we've > not done much here yet, we're just doing a simple collapsing into a > single node for each groupId, artifactId: > > http://people.apache.org/~jvanzyl/g3.png (circular layout with test > scope edges in light blue) > > and > > http://people.apache.org/~jvanzyl/g4.png (hierachic layout or moen > where the test scope edges are easier to see) > > This is just some food for thought, but what we are planning to do is > show the difference (visually) between what is currently happening > and what should happen. Depth information is being lost and without > the original tree up front I'm seeing it being very hard to get > accurate information. That picture is of maven-core BTW. > > We're using yFiles from yWorks to do the rendering and it is simply > the best graph tool their is. Oleg's son is actually trying to make > something equivalent in Eclipse using Zest. So I'm going to integrate > this graphing into IDEA and we'll be making a little stand-alone tool > for people to play around with. We just need to figure out > obfuscating the yFiles JAR before deploying it. What I intend instead > of rambling on ad nauseam about why I think the current mechanism > doesn't work I'll just show you. We're currently trying to figure out > how to display the mechanism of the old/new in side by side windows > as the resolution is happening to demonstrate the differences > visually. We are dealing with 1000+ projects here, where we have to > make 150 different deliverables and things must be unequivocally > accurate including snapshots. Anyone some pictures to think about. > More to come this week. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > jason at sonatype dot com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
